When concentration is developed, wisdom arises. When wisdom arises, one becomes disenchanted with the five aggregates.

The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment.

Every moment of mindfulness is a step on the path to liberation. Each step is valuable, no matter how small.

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.

The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort.

The yogi's joy is in the solitude of mountains, where all distractions naturally dissolve into emptiness.

The goal of the Buddhist path is not to add something to our existence but to discover something that has been there all along.

Knowledge must be stabilized by meditation. Without meditation, knowledge is like a child in battle.

Life is an art, and like perfect art it should be self-forgetting.

Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.

The practice of Buddhism is fundamentally a practice of expanding our happiness and diminishing our suffering.

Impermanence, suffering, and non-self are not philosophical concepts but realities to be directly perceived through mindfulness practice.

Don't try to change the world. First, change yourself.

When you recognize that pain and suffering are impermanent, you become free.

Your mind is like a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.

Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can't simply relax with ourselves. We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

My father is the intrinsic awareness, Samantabhadra. My mother is the ultimate sphere of reality, Samantabhadri. I belong to the caste of non-duality of these two.

The most important thing in life is to know death is coming and to prepare for it.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.

When you note pain, you should not dwell on the thought, "I feel pain." Simply recognize the presence of pain.

External phenomena are like a dream, whatever appears is not real. Recognize the nature of dream-like phenomena to be dream-like.

Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.

As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

Life is available only in the present moment.

The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.

Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.

There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.